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Eurecat unveils battery, hydrogen, robotics, new materials and plastronics technologies for sustainable mobility at eMobility World Congress

2024-03-13T11:05:54+01:00February 12th, 2024|Aeronautical, Automotive, Energy, Fires, Press Notes, Railway|

At the eMobility Expo World Congress, which brings together the European mobility industry from 13-15 February in Valencia, the Eurecat technology centre is to unveil its latest-generation technologies and solutions in batteries and electrification, hydrogen, robotics, new lightweight materials, plastronics and artificial intelligence to unlock sustainable mobility. “Eurecat will bring outstanding innovations to businesses to [...]

Eurecat takes part in European consortium analysing online manipulation threats to combat disinformation

2024-02-20T12:16:16+01:00February 6th, 2024|IT-Security, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the European Athena project which is to develop tools to analyse and combat disinformation and misinformation on the Internet, seen by the World Economic Forum as the greatest global risk over the next two years. The Athena (An exposition on THe forEign informatioN mAnipulation and interference) project is [...]

New tool optimises acoustics in virtual reality to help people with hearing difficulties join in

2024-02-20T12:14:40+01:00February 1st, 2024|Audiovisual Technologies, Cultural and Creative Industries, Press Notes|

This week at the ISE trade fair in Barcelona, the Eurecat technology centre is showcasing a tool for optimising acoustics in virtual reality and audiovisual production which enhances understanding in virtual environments and helps people with hearing difficulties to take part by tapping deep learning algorithms and binaural audio. The innovation, which has been developed [...]

Eurecat trials an immersive digital reading experience with 3D special effects and music creations

2024-02-20T12:12:50+01:00January 30th, 2024|Audiovisual Technologies, Cultural and Creative Industries, Press Notes|

At ISE 2024, the leading international trade fair for the audiovisual and integrated systems industry, the Eurecat technology centre is presenting a new 3D sound system for audio books which delivers an immersive digital reading experience through narratives enhanced with 3D special effects and music creations. These new media technologies are applied in an innovative [...]

New Tourism Technology Centres eBook unpacks artificial intelligence’s impact on the tourism industry

2024-02-20T12:10:35+01:00January 30th, 2024|Innovació turística, Press Notes, Tourism|

The eBook “The Tourism Industry Facing the Challenge of AI” brought out by the Tourism Technology Centres group, of which Eurecat is a member, in conjunction with Thinktur unpacks trends in the use and application of artificial intelligence and explores this technology’s impact on tourism. In the eBook, the Eurecat technology centre presents the features of [...]

Novel lightweight materials to reduce weight of chassis components of Electric Vehicles by 40%

2024-02-08T14:16:09+01:00January 29th, 2024|Automotive, Metallic and Ceramic Materials, Press Notes|

Researchers at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and the technological centre Eurecat, proposed novel material solutions based on high-strength steels, composites and hybrid materials with the objective to reduce the weight of electric car chassis components by 40%. The research was conducted as part [...]

Generative AI, breakthroughs in sensor technology and the potential of photovoltaic energy among the industry trends which will shape 2024

2024-02-20T12:08:23+01:00January 24th, 2024|Automotive, Autonomous and professional robotics, Energy, Materials Processing and Capital Equipment, Press Notes, Textile|

The introduction of generative artificial intelligence in virtually every link of the supply chains of many industrial sectors, the replacement of synthetic fibres in the textile industry and its resulting impact on the reduction of microplastics, breakthroughs in automotive sensor technology and the push for the Internet of Things (IoT) and the potential of [...]

A link between histidine and fatty liver disease discovered in a study by IDIBGI and Eurecat

2024-01-22T16:09:30+01:00January 22nd, 2024|Nutrition and Health, Press Notes|

A study by the Girona Biomedical Research Institute Dr. Josep Trueta (IDIBGI) and the Eurecat technology centre reveals a link between low levels of histidine in the blood and fatty liver disease. Published in the scientific journal "Cell Reports Medicine", the research suggests new therapeutic opportunities to improve liver health in patients with obesity. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is the [...]

Eurecat has over 200 patents and nine spin-offs

2024-02-20T12:06:03+01:00January 19th, 2024|Health, ICT, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre has over 200 patents for highly innovative industrial, digital, biotech and sustainability technologies and has set up nine spin-offs in partnership with other businesses as one of its core technology transfer activities in areas such as digitalising healthcare, textile production, 3D printing and information and communication technologies. To publicise these and other [...]

Generative AI, gene sequencing and editing and biomanufacturing some of the biotech trendsetters for 2024 says Eurecat

2024-02-20T12:02:14+01:00January 15th, 2024|Food, Health, Nutrition and Health, Press Notes|

The burgeoning potential of generative artificial intelligence is set to play a leading role in the healthcare industry in 2024 along with gene editing and its applications in precision medicine and synthetic biology. This will enable the generation of new ingredients for the food sector and bioactive substances for the pharmaceutical industry to unlock [...]

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